6 steps to act now

“I wish it wasn’t too safe” my father said and then continued “you are young, so go out there and risk, fail and learn”. That was enough for me to take action to achieve my goals. Just think about it, you work towards your goals and you achieve them, wouldn’t that be amazing? Easier said than done. truth? If you don’t give yourself a chance, it will never happen.

The worst thing is that we all try to do something to improve our lives. Especially in New Years, many people have that ‘new year, new me’ mentality. Oddly enough, they and you also followed the same habits to achieve different goals. It is like eating chicken and waiting for the taste of meat. After all the failed attempts, you become desperate and start to believe that you don’t have what it takes. The good news? You have what it takes!

However, first things first. The main reason you failed in the past is this: you set a goal in your mind, read, listen, watch, and gather information about it. And you forgot the most important part; The execution. Let’s say you want to play the violin, have a sexy body, or start a business. What do you do for a living? You do it! You spend too much time learning “about” your goal and eventually you run out of energy for the actual goal.

Hesitation is another problem; Do you think I should? Will it be beneficial? Will I be successful? What are the others going to think? I have a question for you; How the hell are you going to know the answer without trying? The only thing you should get out of this; he spends too much energy on his target rather than the target itself.

Procrastination, I had this problem in the past, I feel you. I usually stop working on my goals; I’ll start working on it after watching this episode. All right, I’ll just listen to one more music and start. Guess what happened? Nothing, I killed my precious time. And I’ve had enough, so have you. Here’s how to act right now:

First, understand your fears. Yes, fears and yes, the ones you deny. If you want, you can write them down on a piece of paper. But, in general, we are afraid of these: failure and what others will think about what we do. Bad news, you’re going to fail, I know for myself, I did it many times. The worst, it will hurt, but I also have good news. Every time you fail, you learn to recover. Certainly one of the reasons you are afraid of failure is because you don’t want other people to see it, which is why you don’t want to fail.

It’s funny, because you’re not their priority, so they don’t think of you as much as you think they think of you. Suppose one of your friends started martial arts training. He took his new hobby seriously and after training for a couple of months he participated in a tournament. Let’s say it was destroyed in its first match. How much would you care? Are you going to make fun of him or, if so, for how long? As you can see, there is no need to fear the failure that comes from worrying about the reactions of others.

Second, you must accept failure. There are many ways to accept failure, in my opinion changing the definition of failure is the easiest. How? Instead of “failure,” you can say “stepping stone,” “lesson,” or “growth opportunity.” The more you fail, the more “growth opportunities” you will have. Believe me, one of those opportunities will work for you, then you will rise like a star. You don’t fail because you act, you fail because you don’t act.

Third, you learn along the way. Your worst is first, remember that. Do yourself a favor, have low expectations on your first try. No one was born as professional athletes, wonderful writers or singers. All successful people put great effort into their work. There is no secret, you have to do the same if you want to achieve your goal. It is perfectly okay to think, read, listen, and gather information about what you want to do, however, make sure you have enough energy to put the necessary effort into your goal. Otherwise, you will not move on.

Fourth, run away from temporary desires as your life depends on it. Temporary wishes ruin your life. As you think of one more episode, one more music, or one more night, the other person who works is winning. If something you do doesn’t help you, don’t do it. For example, I love listening to music, therefore I listen to music before work. It starts with that phrase ‘just one more’ or ‘okay, this is the last one’, trust me, it’s more than one more or the last. When I started writing instead of listening to music, I found myself writing until 2 in the morning. So get started!

The last one, take your time. It is good to visualize your success and it motivates you, however, you should take only one step at a time. When it comes to achieving something, you can’t start at the top. Do not try to be at the top at the beginning of the trip, as I have said before, have low expectations at the beginning.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do, you will doubt, fear, and procrastinate more. Which will not bring any positive results. On the other hand, if you start doing what you want to do right now, you will eventually get some results (good or bad). More than that, if you keep trying, eventually, you will get the desired result.
What are you waiting for? Go for it!

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